Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, a grizzled veteran with eight kills and four rows of ribbons, Low took off from his interceptor base near Seoul. Over northwestern Korea, he and his wingman saw contrails (vapor trails); then Low spotted two MIGs, camouflage painted in green and brown. The enemy planes tried to get away, one zooming, the other diving. Low chased...
...finally crashed and exploded. The fight had lasted 15 minutes, an unusually long time for jets. A few days later, "Dad" Low had his bags packed and was waiting for a transport to Tokyo when some 40 MIGs came howling down toward the front lines, as if feinting at Seoul. Low sweated that one out on the ground. But he said: "I sure would like to have hacked down just one more. Nine is such an uneven number...
...singing tour of Korea, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel was flabbergasted at the eager, enthusiastic response when she asked a G.I. audience in Seoul if she could give them "just one little Wagnerian aria." Said she: "I thought you'd prefer Betty Hutton, and I'm a far cry from that." Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, recently elected chairman of the Southern Governors Conference, announced that South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes would act as head of a conference group which will try to "present the Southern viewpoint to the nation." Said Talmadge: "Good public...
...cardinal flew into Seoul just before Christmas, as he had last year, with a few gifts for the troops (100,000 cigarettes, 20,000 religious medals, 15,000 holy cards-showing the Nativity scene with a verse he had written for the occasion). As he walked toward a waiting car with General James Van Fleet, some 50 soldiers who had been waiting clustered around him. One called out, "Give us a blessing, Father." While the cardinal murmured the short blessing, they knelt quietly on the runway...
...Korean Christians. In five nights of preaching-three to largely Korean audiences, two to groups of G.I.s-more than i.ooo walked down the aisle to make "decisions for Christ." Said Evangelist Billy: "It makes no difference whether you are Korean, American, Chinese or Japanese. You are all sinners." In the Seoul area, the cardinal visited hospitals and various nearby units, faithfully taking the names of all the soldiers he talked to. (Last year he sent letters to the relatives of 6,000 after he returned to the U.S.) On Christmas Eve, he said midnight Mass at I Corps chapel, the next...